Swedish Exhibition Agency

These posters are excerpts from Gabor Palotai’s design for Swedish Exhibition Agency’s recent annual report. The posters consist of graphic sculptures built up by a pile of new variations of Gabor Palotai Design’s graphic identity for The Swedish Exhibition Agency. The graphic sculptures also suggest to moving forward and upwards; the colors and layers of signs and symbols interact and play out the condition to staple your things in order to be on the move.

Swedish Exhibition Agency, 2016

These posters are excerpts from Gabor Palotai’s design for Swedish Exhibition Agency’s recent annual report. The posters consist of graphic sculptures built up by a pile of new variations of Gabor Palotai Design’s graphic identity for The Swedish Exhibition Agency. The graphic sculptures also suggest to moving forward and upwards; the colors and layers of signs and symbols interact and play out the condition to staple your things in order to be on the move.

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Gabor Palotai, Sweden (2002)

Gábor Palotai took his MA in graphic design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. In 1981 he moved to Stockholm where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Beckmans College of Design. He works on a broad range of design commissions in the field of visual communication, such as identity design, packaging, illustrations, poster art, photography, textile design, typography, book design, animations, and web design. Gábor Palotai’s playful and striking graphic design, where design and art merge, characterizes his studio’s output. His graphic design commissions and art projects are intermixed and displayed in different ways throughout his books: Maximizing the Audience (2000), AM MU NA HI (2001), 111 Posters (2007), and Odysseus – A graphic Design Novel (2007). Gábor Palotai’s long-standing experimental design and art project on patterns is also to be seen in his latest book ZOO (2017). His interdisciplinary art and design has been realised in different media. Gábor Palotai frequently exhibits his design and art, at solo exhibitions and group shows. He is an honorary professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.

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Zoo

Artworks and graphic design: Gábor Palotai

Text: Linda Rampell

In the book ZOO, Gábor Palotai displays a different take on the depictions of animals in the arts. Far from being figurative illustrations, every animal is portrayed in an abstract art; sharply outlined in contrast with a mesmerizing pattern in light and dark. The effects of this white and black pattern enhances the impression that each animal is etched into the paper in a texure that evokes tactile sensibility.

Odysseus

(2007)

Artworks and graphic design: Gábor Palotai

Text: Linda Rampell

ODYSSEUS is an experimental graphic design novel by Gábor Palotai. Turn over the pages of the book: there are no longer any black words on white paper. In fact there is nothing to read, only to be seen. The verbal is replaced by the visual. Skirting the surface of the paper, the beat of the black-and-white tells of a story where the storyteller is you: you are your own ODYSSEUS.

111 Poster

(2007)

Poster and graphic design: Gábor Palotai

Text: Linda Rampell

The striking and subtile design of Gábor Palotai is epitomized in his posters, where letters and basic elements are transformed into images. 111 POSTERS is a retrospective of Gábor Palotai’s sharp and sensitive poster art. 111 Statements of his precise and recognizable graphic design. 111 documents of everyday urban life.

AM MU NA HI

(2001)

Photography and graphic design: Gábor Palotai

Text: Linda Rampell

The title AM MU NA HI is an abbreviation, derived from the American Museum of Natural History. Gábor Palotai photographed the stuffed animals at the museum, and thereafter computer manipulated his pictures – a modus operandi by which they were transformed into allegory. No longer recognized as they were once seen, they became a memento of a death which for them had already occurred. AM MU NA HI displays a mummified reality, embalmed in a poetic landscape, where death is no longer superficial.

Maximizing The Audience

(2000)

Graphic Design: Gábor Palotai

Text: Linda Rampell

MAXIMIZING THE AUDIENCE displays Gábor Palotai’s distinguished world of visual art made during the years 1985-2000. The book consists of two parts: The first part displays an in depth diversity of themes and topics, from death to play, deliberately crossing the disciplines of art and design. The second part shows his context bound art projects and client based graphic design commissions, from corporate identities to exhibition and web design.